Stomatolina angulata

Stomatolina angulata
A shell of Stomatolina angulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatolina
Species: S. angulata
Binomial name
Stomatolina angulata
(A. Adams, 1850) [1]
Synonyms

Stomatia angulata A. Adams, 1850

Stomatolina angulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 16 mm. The depressed shell is thin but rather solid, with very short, conical spire. It is greenish gray, obscurely longitudinally striped with dull, pale reddish brown. The surface is lusterless, with numerous unequal spiral threads, latticed by wavy riblets of growth. The three whorls are encircled by two strong carinae above, and numerous smaller lirae below the periphery and with strong, short subsutural folds. The body whorl is large, depressed, and impressed at the place of umbilicus. The oblique aperture is subrotund. [4]

Distribution

The marine species occurs off the Philippines and Japan.

References

  1. ↑ A. Adams., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 34
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Stomatolina angulata (A. Adams, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547317 on 2012-11-23
  3. ↑ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  4. ↑ H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
External identifiers for Stomatolina angulata
Encyclopedia of Life 4794362
NCBI 648606
WoRMS 547317
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